Tragedy Quotes

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Francis Kennedy

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
Rufus Wainwright

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
Stanley Kubrick

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Billy Joel

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinger

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Benjamin Franklin

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Hebbel